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=Introduction=

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A p2 Installable Unit (IU) is installed using the facilities provided by a ''touchpoint''. The IU metadata consists of a reference to the touchpoint (Touchpoint Type) which also defines the version of the touchpoint (i.e an expectancy that it supports a certain set of operations), and describes instructions to execute in various p2 engine phases. The instructions are named after the phases - the phases "install", "uninstall", "configure", "unconfigure" are of interest when authoring, but there are also some internal phases such as "collect" and "checktrust" executed by the engine. Each instruction (e.g. "install") describes a sequence of actions to execute on the referenced touchpoint. Examples of actions are create and remove directories, change permissons, install and remove bundles. Currently, two touchpoints (native, and eclipse) have been implemented. The native touchpoint has approximately 5 different actions, and the eclipse touchpoint has approximately 20. Most of these actions take parameters. This wiki page describes these actions in detail.

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The instructions are grouped and described in a Touchpoint Data Element. The touchpoint data element uses a Map where the key is the name of a p2 engine phase (such as "install"), and the

value is a string representation of a sequence of actions. Using multiple touchpoint data elements is useful as it allows separation between sets of actions for install/uninstall/configure/unconfigure which makes it easier to maintain the meta data.

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This wiki page describes the two touchpoints, the instructions they understand, and the format used to represent an action sequence.

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=Actions=

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==Native Touchpoint Actions==

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The native touchpoint is used to install things "outside of eclipse".

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{{Command|mkdir}}

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{{Parameters|path}}

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| Changes permission on a file using the system chmod command. The ''targetDir'' parameter is either a path, or the special <code>@artifact</code> which is a reference to the directory where the first artifact included in the installable unit is located. The parameter ''targetFile'' is the name of a file, and ''permissions'' is written like for the ''chmod'' system command. The options parameter is new since [https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=240728 3.5M6] and allows passing additional options like "-R" for recursive operation. If multiple parameters are needed separate them with a space (like on the command line). {{CommentBox|This action executes the system command ''chmod'', and is not available on platforms that does not have this (i.e. Windows)}}

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| Installs the feature referenced by the parameter ''feature'' (matched against artifacts in the iu). The feature is installed with the id specified by the parameter ''featureId'', or if this parameter has the value <code>default</code>, with the id specified in the artifact referenced by ''feature''. The features is installed with the version specified in ''version'', or with the version specified in the artifact referenced by the ''feature'' parameter if the ''version'' parameter has the value <code>default</code>

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| Adds the string specified in the parameter ''programArg'' as an argument to the program. If the parameters is the special value <code>@artifact</code>, the location of the artifact referenced by the first artifact key in the IU is used as the parameter value.

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=Action Format=

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In Eclipse 3.4, touchpoint advice files were only supported in bundles. An advice file placed in the bundle at META-INF/p2.inf would be processed at PDE build time to add the instructions to the installable unit corresponding to the bundle. In Eclipse 3.5, touchpoint advice files can be placed:

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[[Category:Equinox p2|Touchpoint Instructions]]

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Latest revision as of 11:18, 14 December 2012

The information from this page is now in the formal platform documentation: